Crime & Safety
ABC Store Cashier Pepper Sprayed In Mount Vernon Robbery
Police have not made arrests after a robbery involving stolen alcohol.
MOUNT VERNON, VA — An ABC Store cashier was pepper sprayed by a robbery Friday, Jan. 31 in Mount Vernon, according to Fairfax County Police.
The robbery happened at the 8628A Richmond Highway around 10:37 a.m. Police say a man and two women entered the ABC Store and put several bottles of alcohol in a cart. Upon approaching the cashier, one woman used pepper spray on the cashier.
The suspects left from the store and fled in a car. Suspect descriptions were not available.
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